Use case · work chat
Voice typing in
Slack.
Slack moves at conversation speed and then asks you to type. Say it instead: the standup, the decision, the paragraph of context nobody wants to thumb out. It lands in the message box as plain text, the same key at your desk as on your phone.
Three steps, once
1. Install.
Four steps, once, on Android or Windows. No account and no card for the free plan.
2. Open Slack.
Put the cursor in the message box. A channel, a thread, a DM, all the same to a keyboard.
3. Press and talk.
Hold the key on Windows, tap the bubble on Android, then talk like a person. Whole sentences land at the cursor about two seconds after you pause.
Longer messages gain the most. A three-sentence update is about ten seconds of talking against a minute of typing, which is usually the difference between writing the context and skipping it.
Slack sees typed text, same as always.
Fastspoken types through the keyboard layer on Android and at the cursor on Windows, so Slack receives ordinary typed characters, exactly as if your hands had done it. On the free plan speech becomes text on the machine in front of you: 0 words of what you said sent to a server, no account, and it still works with the wifi off. The typing is free because it runs on your machine, which is the same reason nothing you say leaves it. See the whole machine.
No server in the loop on the free plan.
Questions about Slack
Does it work in threads and DMs?
Yes, any Slack text field: channels, threads, DMs, even the search box.
Will my workspace admin see anything?
Nothing new. Slack receives ordinary typed text. On the free plan your audio never leaves the machine you spoke into.